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Kaulder appeared in a tailored dark blue suit as District Judge Margot Coleman heard final submissions about the case at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

She is expected to adjourn the case for a ruling.

Kaulder's barrister Clare Montgomery QC, of Matrix Chambers, said: 'Nowhere is it reliably stated that anyone would make false statements to the physicians or the drop shippers there when the drugs were being shipped.

'And even if one got in the realm of inferring there must have been some false statement made, where is it suggested that it was with an intent to gain within the meaning of The Fraud Act?'

Ms Montgomery told the court the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has cleared him of any wrongdoing.

'It might be a case where you wish to have further explanations from the U.S. government, given the poverty of explanations they have provided thus far,' she added.

American prosecutors are now seeking Kaulder's extradition to face charges for conspiracy to smuggle goods, smuggling goods, and conspiracy to commit money laundering

Ben Lloyd, on behalf of US authorities, said they 'are not able to provide further information for reasons of sensitivity'.

He continued: 'The conduct in our submission does give rise to the offence of fraud by false representation.

'A point made against us in terms of the fraud misrepresentation offences is that there's no suggestion of attempt to gain so far as the customs conduct is concerned.

'What is the purpose in this case of a representation made to customs of the value?

'It's to facilitate the scheme, to ensure that the items entered the U.S. when if they had been described correctly the wouldn't have done.

'Plainly the purpose was to make money out of the enterprise.'

Kaulder was arrested on August 15 after US prosecutors filed an indictment on July 17, 2015.

It claims he was involved in the sale of 'a counterfeit version of the cancer drug known as Altuzan', which was not approved by the US's Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

CanadaDrugs is said to have used River East Supplies, in Leicester, and Rockley Ventures, based in Barbados, to conduct the sale of cheap counterfeit versions of drugs including Altuzan, Aloxi, Avastin, and Botox.

According to charges, 'many of the drugs sold were used in conjunction with the treatment of cancer'.

CanadaDrugs were also accused of forging customs documents to conceal shipments of drugs when US prosecutors laid charges against the company in August 2015.

Kaulder, from Chellaston, in Derby, has been on bail throughout the case.